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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.